Alfred Jarry was a good friend of Henri Rousseau and named him for eternity Le Douanier. In 1895 Rousseau painted Jarry though the poet didn’t like the portrait and destroyed it without any documentation !!!

This work is an attempt to re-imagine this lost portrait.

Alfred Jarry was not a nice man. Today we would refer to him in street jargon as asshole. He stole from his friends, he cheated on his friends, he betrayed his friends, he insulted his friends. He never paid back his debts and never intended to do so. He was a misogynist and wasn't too appreciative of people in general. He even shot his friend in the arm and threatened critics with the gun he always carried with him.

All my painters were not compensated . They are gifts - the same way they were given to Alfred Jarry.

Needless to say, I feel deeply ashamed of my unequal trade with these wonderful artists who portrayed me as Alfred Jarry in the style of Henri Rousseau sticking to the artists own ways of seeing and painting.s

Hence--- hence I want to thank everybody as much as I can for their generosity and understanding as well as appoloigize for the unequal exchange..mimicking Jarry's personality.

I will not sell these painting and treat them like a gift but do assume artistic authorship the way Alfred Jarry did with his piece UBU who was mostly written by two of his classmats.

ps: I DO NOT INTEND to sell these paintings - they ought to stay in my own collection as a group to feed my own, my I"I wanna be Alfred Jarry' narcism

this work is also an artistic attempt of mine to align with ALFRED JARRY TURN ON AUTHORSHIP..

remember .. KING UBU -- UBU REX-(which made him really famous... as an artist and allowed him to be was mostly written by two other friends in hight school. but it was ALFRED JARRY.. who ran off with it to paris and sold it as AJ , as his own unique work.